Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know.

My name's Linda Davies and I Commission Podcasts for BBC Sounds.

As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality featuring the most knowledgeable

experts and genuinely engaging voices. What you may not know is that the BBC

makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars,

poltergeist, cricket, and conspiracy theories and that's just a few examples.

If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC Sounds.

This is the BBC.

Hello and welcome to more or less the program which adds a zesty dressing to the statistical

salad that confronts us every day.

This week is it really true that there's no safe level of alcohol consumption?

And our loyal listeners respond on the key issues facing the country today, such as

where to draw the poverty line and is Gandalf lying to us? But first the Prime Minister has been

touring Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya and some people argue that the European

Union levies high tariffs on African imports, a situation that the UK

can change if it leaves the European Customs Union.

On the today programme, presenter Sarah Smith, interviewed government minister Harriet Baldwin.

Many of the African countries we deal with will want to trade on completely different terms.

They're particularly annoyed about huge import tariffs that there are on sugar, also on rice, maize and

other cereals, 50% on some of these goods. They'll want to renegotiate that. Can we tell

them that we're going to eliminate those tariffs on agricultural products?

Well, those comments set Twitter alight.

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